It's Remembrance Day, and as a lot of veterans from the World Wars are no longer with us, it can be harder to pass on their stories.

Andy Keys is with the Legion in Swift Current, but served with the British Forces during the first Gulf War in the early 1990s.

He spoke to students at a number of schools in the Swift Current area, and passed on stories to the kids.

"I think you do what you can. I followed in the footsteps of local people here like Hewitt Murch (a D-Day veteran that died in 2015). I try to tell his story - maybe a story that he was too proud to tell about what he saw when he came across the D-Day beaches. I like to share the story of Master Corporal Byron Greff, who was the last Canadian killed in Afghanistan in 2011, and he was born in Swift Current. There's a local tie to all of this."

Andy keys at All Saints Catholic School (photo by Dave Markewich)

With ceremonies taking place in the morning at the cenotaph at Memorial Park in Swift Current, before the 11th-hour ceremony is held at Swift Current Comprehensive High School, it's a day where sacrifices of many have paved the way for Canadians today. There are road closures today and potentially more tomorrow on the block around the legion.

Keys helps the kids learn when he visits the schools, but finds he doesn't only play the role of teacher.

"The kids do a fantastic job without me having to tell them," he said. "The first one that they ever came to over here, I went to a school, going to tell them where the poppy came from and what it was all about, but I actually walked away learning a little bit myself. It's the kids that do a fantastic job in all these schools. And if they just gain one little bit of knowledge from every service that they attend, then they get a feeling for it, and they get to learn more."